I think that kit is supposed to be used if someone screws up when tweaking the kernel or a shell script used by init or a config file or things like that which prevent the system from booting. It's not supposed to recover from Linux doing random crashes--which Linux almost never does, of course.
Look, I think that scoop should have had a thicker skin myself, but I can't say I've been in anything like scoop's shoes. I don't maintain a web site, and I don't have to deal with 1000s of flames trashing my hard work. For all I know, I might have done the same thing if I were in his place--and so might have you.
Window Maker isn't the One True Way, after all. It's just a very good window manager. If it can handle Aterms, and the GNOME and KDE stuff, then why not go ahead and use those things with Window Maker? Just do what works.
There's more than enough room for both Freshmeat and Xshare. Yeeesh! Good-bye FreshMeat, Hello XShare? Where's the sympathy? Where's the appreciation for scoop's hard work?
It's not a *constructive* part of web life, but it is a part of it. No matter what you do, someone is almost bound not to like it. Furthermore, there are a lot of people on the Internet who are just plain rude. These two things interact badly, and you either let it get to you, or you ignore it like the stupidity it is.
The Web can be a mean and nasty place, and it is full of malcontents and anonymous fools. We just have to live with it and move on.
The analogy of guns and encryption is flawed. Encryption is basically defensive; it prevents people from doing something to you--namely finding out things that you want to keep secret (like passwords, credit card numbers, personal info) and using that knowledge against you. Guns are basically offensive weapons; they allow you to do something to someone else--namely injuring or killing someone else. Even when one uses a gun to defend oneself, it is still an offensive tool, preventing one from doing something to you _by doing something to them_.
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I think that kit is supposed to be used if someone screws up when tweaking the kernel or a shell script used by init or a config file or things like that which prevent the system from booting. It's not supposed to recover from Linux doing random crashes--which Linux almost never does, of course.
Look, I think that scoop should have had a thicker skin myself, but I can't say I've been in anything like scoop's shoes. I don't maintain a web site, and I don't have to deal with 1000s of flames trashing my hard work. For all I know, I might have done the same thing if I were in his place--and so might have you.
Window Maker isn't the One True Way, after all. It's just a very good window manager. If it can handle Aterms, and the GNOME and KDE stuff, then why not go ahead and use those things with Window Maker? Just do what works.
There's more than enough room for both Freshmeat and Xshare. Yeeesh! Good-bye FreshMeat, Hello XShare? Where's the sympathy? Where's the appreciation for scoop's hard work?
Man, you are cold!
It's not a *constructive* part of web life, but it is a part of it. No matter what you do, someone is almost bound not to like it. Furthermore, there are a lot of people on the Internet who are just plain rude. These two things interact badly, and you either let it get to you, or you ignore it like the stupidity it is.
The Web can be a mean and nasty place, and it is full of malcontents and anonymous fools. We just have to live with it and move on.
The analogy of guns and encryption is flawed. Encryption is basically defensive; it prevents people from doing something to you--namely finding out things that you want to keep secret (like passwords, credit card numbers, personal info) and using that knowledge against you. Guns are basically offensive weapons; they allow you to do something to someone else--namely injuring or killing someone else. Even when one uses a gun to defend oneself, it is still an offensive tool, preventing one from doing something to you _by doing something to them_.
The analogy is flawed. Be careful.